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Translating Shakespeare

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play on! Project updates Shakespeare’s texts for modern audiences. Beginning in 2011, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, in collaboration with the Hitz Foundation, commissioned 36 playwrights to “translate” Shakespeare’s plays into 21st century English.  The resulting adaptations are “literal translations” of Shakespeare’s plays. Much of the original, heightened language remains while obsolete words and complex phrases are updated for contemporary understanding. Play on! aims to include audiences, inviting them to experience Shakespeare’s plays in their linguistic present.

Actors’ Shakespeare Project is proud to present Migdalia Cruz’s verse translation of Macbeth.

ASP had the opportunity to sit down with Migdalia during her recent visit to Boston. Check out the full interview HERE.

For more information on Play on!, please visit Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s page HERE!